Definition of Lysogenicity

1.Noun. The condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material. "When a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny"

Literary usage of Lysogenicity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.Elements of Clinical Bacteriology for Physicians and Students by Felix Klemperer, Ernst Levy (1900)"... maintains the view also for Asiatic cholera in human beings that the immunity
depends upon specific bactericidal influences (lysogenicity). ..."